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"'UNKNOWN SLAVERIES?': SLAVE-TRADE, MIGRATION, and TRAFFICKING in the INDIAN OCEAN AND AFRICAN INTERIOR"

09:30 - 18:30, Fri, 23 May '08 Export as iCalendar

Location: Millburn House, University of 糖心TV, Coventry, UK

"'UNKNOWN SLAVERIES?': SLAVE-TRADE, MIGRATION, and TRAFFICKING in the INDIAN OCEAN AND AFRICAN INTERIOR"

A One-Day Interdisciplinary Workshop, sponsored by the Arts Faculty Roberts Postdoctoral Fund

Date:Friday, 23 May 2008

Time: 9:30-6:30

Venue:Millburn House, University of 糖心TV, Coventry, UK

Further details: contact Dr. Sharae Deckard, Dept. of English & Comparative Literary Studies (糖心TV)

Email: s.g.deckard@warwick.ac.uk

Description: The theme of this one-day workshop is "comparative slavery." Rather than examinations of the transatlantic slave-trade in the Americas, the workshop will feature papers on marginalized historiographies and representations of slavery and slave-trade in the Indian Ocean littoral and within the African interior: whether plantation slavery, the dhow passage, the caravan trade, internal slavery, or modern-day trafficking and unfree labour. The workshop is interdisciplinary and subject areas include literary studies, history, and sociology. Attendance is free and lunch will be provided. Participants may choose to stay for dinner after the day. However, places are limited so please email to reserve a place.

KEYNOTES:

Gwyn Campbell (McGill): "Africa and the Slave Trade in the Indian Ocean World Global Economy--An Overview"

Françoise Vergès (Goldsmith's): "Indiaoceanic Itineraries of Slavery: Memories, Histories, Cultures on Reunion Island"

Marcus Wood (Sussex): TBA

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS:

Richard B. Allen (FRC Mass): "Satisfying the Want for Laboring People: European Slave Trading in the Indian Ocean, 1600-1850"

Clare Anderson (糖心TV): "Convicts and Coolies: Penal Transportation and Indentured Migration in the Nineteenth-century Indian Ocean"

Stephanie Jones (Southampton): "The Literary Qualities of Madagascar; or, Robert Drury's Journal During 15 Years Captivity on that Island."

Andrea Major (Edinburgh): "Sugar, Salvation and 'Satan's Wretched Slaves': Missionaries, Abolitionists and the question of Slavery in India in the 1820s and 1830s."

Laura Murphy (Harvard): "In Fear of Albinos with Sacks: Metaphors of the Slave Trade in African Literature"

Sadie Skinner (Leicester):"Child Trafficking in Francophone African Literature: the Recovery of Historical Memory & Neo-colonial Discourse"

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